Notes 3.4

Outlines

Introduction

• other planets are very similar to Earth
  • they both have a moon and a rocky crust

Earth's Moon

• if you look at the moon's surface, you'll discover the black part is very very smooth
  • it is smooth because lava once flowed there

Volcanoes on Venus

• Venus have thousands of volcanos
  • the largest of them all is Theia Mons
    • which measured about 800 km across and 4 km high

Volcanoes on Mars

• there are fewer volcanoes at Mars
• on Mars, there are a lot of shield volcanoes
  • the largest volcano is Olympus Mons
    • it is as big as Ohio

Volcanoes on Distant Moons

• Io, the moon of Triton and Jupiter has some volcanoes too
  • the volcanoes shoots out frozen nitrogen